“Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.”
St. Augustine
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Immortality
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“The intellectual knowledge of eternal things pertains to wisdom; the rational knowledge of temporal things, to science.”
St. Augustine
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“Faith therefore is to believe that which you do not see, truth is to see what you have believed.”
St. Augustine
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.”
St. Augustine
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“Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.”
St. Augustine
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“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”
St. Augustine
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Confession
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“God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.”
St. Augustine
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Adversity
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“The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.”
St. Augustine
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Victory
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“Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”
St. Augustine
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Understanding
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“A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.”
St. Augustine
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“Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.”
St. Augustine
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“I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!”
St. Augustine
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Beauty
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“Don’t you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?”
St. Augustine
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Spirituality
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“To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.”
St. Augustine
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Sin
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“Punishment is justice for the unjust.”
St. Augustine
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Punishment
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“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
St. Augustine
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”
St. Augustine
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Perfection
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“The greatest evil is physical pain.”
St. Augustine
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Pain
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“To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.”
St. Augustine
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Moderation
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“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”
St. Augustine
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Miracles
